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Public PolicyAP Government
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What is it?Government action to address a specific challenge.
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What are today’s challenges?
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Politics and Policy
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Types of Public Policy
Distributive policy (new benefits are given to all citizens)
Redistributive policy (resources taken from one group and given to another—zero sum game)
Counterdistributive policy (resources taken from everyone to solve a specific problem—Social Security)
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The Eight Steps in Making Public Policy
1. Making assumptions about the world
2. Setting the agenda• Nondecision• Policy agenda• Think tanks
3. Deciding to act4. Deciding how much to do• Incremental policy• Punctuating policy• Iron triangles• Issue networks
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The Eight Steps in Making Public Policy
5. Choosing a tool Federal spending Use of taxes Providing goods and services Guarantee protection against risk Regulations and rules Provision of both material and symbolic benefits
6. Deciding who will deliver the goods or services Federal government “Third-party government”
Private businesses Colleges and universities State and local governments Charities
7. Making rules for implementation Federal Register
8. Running the program
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Pages in the Federal Register
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Policy-Making Alliances
Iron TrianglesFederal department or agency
Interest groups
House and/or Senate authorizing committee
Issue Networks
Federal department or
agency
House and/or Senate authorizing committee
= Small, highly specialized interest groups